For about 8 years, I have worked in IT with mostly MS products - Azure, Windows Server and a bit of Intune. This was my comfort zone. For the past 2 years, however, I have been running into Salesforce. Not directly; I was involved with integration projects where Salesforce was one of the systems, and then my co-workers began working in Salesforce and recruiters started asking me if I had experience with "any CRM." then last year, there was a cloud architect position I wanted that specifically mentioned Salesforce knowledge as an added bonus; this was my push!
Thus, I decided to become certified; not because I wanted to be a full-time SF admin tomorrow, but because I needed to understand the SF platform well enough to architect solutions for it, so I decided to start with the Salesforce Certified Administrator certification.
What resulted was 6 weeks of studying, a lot of frustration, a failed first attempt and finally passing the exam. This article will give you an overview of what worked, what didn't and w
